/lit/ - Literature

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>Now if only there was anyone bold enough to start a philosophical enquire in which is necessary and which is not, and to decouple one from the other.
this is the question of questions. separating necessary from the unnecessary religion, divorcing religion from philosophy, or refolding philosophy back into religion has preoccupies some pretty interesting people: plato, hegel, spinoza, and pic rel all come to mind. more recently JBP, who is not quite in that echelon, but who can't really be called an anomaly. deconstruction has produced this militant form of secularism that land recognized had deep religious roots. this was giving me an ulcer until i read girard.

psychoanalysis makes for fascinating reading. freud wasn't optimistic, but he did believe that it was possible to separate neurotic/existential unhappiness from ordinary unhappiness. the neurotic/existential unhappiness has a direct hotline to the divine, and really is best understood by reference to the great literature and myths that make up the collective memory of the past. JBP takes his cues from jung rather than freud, but comes up with similar-ish results. trying to shut out the Calls From The Basement does not work, it only leads to more repression and neurosis as harmful to us as they are to others.

D&G are spectacularly interesting in this regard, but there's no need to crow about the torpedoing of hegel/freud/lacan. people sometimes do need therapy, and however much life as a BwO surfing on the plane of immanence has the metaphysical edge over the Middle Way balance and equilibrium also have their charms. even deleuze has regard for the stoics: 'become worthy of that which happens to you.'

but having compiled these lists my thought today is about the nature of the archive, or the library, which is a sort of extended memory projected into time and space. why do this? why preserve the past? well, we know why, and peterson will talk about this also: there's a sort of cosmic pilgrimage, sometimes maybe even a progression, a reclaiming of lands from chaotic wilderness and a propagating of order. JBP has his flaws, but i think his heart is in the right place. the pendulum really has swung pretty far in the direction of the Masters of Suspicion, and it's probably going to go back the other way - assuming the clock doesn't break, that is, and we descend into complete anarchy.

but i don't think we will. i just think we are becoming technologized, and this story belongs to a continuation of the industrial revolution at the psychic level, some chickens coming home to roost. but maybe this too is prologue to Enlightenment 2.0. it would be nice to think so.
>i for one welcome our new robot overlords
>really?
>well maybe not. not sure what else i can do tho besides shitpost